1.
Spurious Letters from Gen
l. Washington to his friends in 1776.
WASHINGTON,
George.
Letters from General Washington to several of his friends, in June and July, 1776; in which is set forth, an interesting view of American politics, at that
all-important period.
Philadelphia: republished at
the Federal Press, [by
Benjamin Franklin Bache]
1795.
8vo. 22 leaves including the first blank.
On the title-page Jefferson has written the word
spurious.
These letters were declared to be forgeries by Washington on their original publication in 1778 by James Rivington. There
was no “Boston edition, now out of print”, of which this edition is stated in the Preface to be a reprint. The supposed author
was John Randolph, the attorney general of Virginia under Lord Dunmore. This republication was due to Washington’s attitude
towards Jay’s treaty.
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2. Political observations. by James Madison.
[MADISON,
James.]
Political observations. [
Philadelphia,
1795.]
8vo. 12 leaves with signatures A-C
4, caption title, no title-page, dated at the end April 20, 1795. One leaf is lacking, and is supplied from the galley proof
(cut into two leaves).
Evans 29017.
Cronin and Wise, 85.
Below the title Jefferson has written:
by James Madison. The numerous corrections in the text and the manuscript note on one of the inserted leaves are not in the handwriting of Jefferson, as they are stated by Evans to be. The handwriting is neither that of Jefferson
nor Madison.
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3.
Letters of Franklin on the conduct of the Executive & treaty with G. Brit.
FRANKLIN (
pseudonym).
Letters of Franklin, on the conduct of the Executive, and the treaty negociated, by the Chief Justice of the United States with the Court of
Great Britain.
Philadelphia: printed by
E. Oswald,
m,dcc,xcv
. [1795.]
8vo. 28 leaves in fours.
Evans 29256 (under Eleazer Oswald).
The Address to the Citizens of the United States at the beginning is dated Philadelphia, 18th June, 1795. The letters, written
over the pseudonym
Franklin, are addressed to the Printer of the
Independent Gazetteer
, in which paper they first appeared, and range in date from March 9 to June 6, 1795; these are followed by a letter dated
June 12 signed
Philo-Franklin.
For a note on this pseudonymous publication see Evans, who quotes from William Cobbett that the Letters are in the nature
of a translation from the French by the printer in whose paper they first appeared--a Colonel who went to France in 1792 to
combat for liberty and returned to Philadelphia in 1793 about the same time as Genet.
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4.
Oration on the 4
th. of July 1796. by James Martin. M.S.
[MARTIN,
James.]
Oration delivered 4th July 1796 at Jamaica Long Island.
Manuscript written on both sides of 12 quarto leaves folded to fit into the octavo volume, 25 lines to a page, title written
on one 8vo. leaf.
This oration does not appear to have been published, and the entry in Evans, 30745, [New York] 8vo. is an error for this manuscript.
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